Thousands of protesters - and a team of bloggers from Guardian Unlimited - are arriving in Edinburgh today for tomorrow's Make Poverty History demonstration and next week's G8 summit. A campsite for 15,000 protesters opens in Niddrie, an Edinburgh suburb, from where Neil McIntosh will be blogging.
We've already got our first post from one of our G8 guest bloggers, Simon Murray, who "used to work in advertising and is attending the G8 protests in an attempt to buy back his soul". Also on Newsblog, Matthew Tempest reports from among the protesters on the Globalise Resistance G8 train from London to Edinburgh. The Guardian's George Monbiot is among the speakers, and he'll be filing an audio report from another train full of demonstrators.
Nicholas Watt has interviewed Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, who claims the EU can be proud of its record on Africa, as it has the world's most open markets to developing countries.
It's National White Band day, which means white bands are being wrapped around major buildings in G8 cites. Millions around the world are urged to wear a white wristband to show their solidarity against poverty.
In Zambia,Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Bangladesh today, Make Poverty History marches are taking place to the embassies of G8 countries.
As Live 8 approaches, Media Guardian will be looking at press facilities for tomorrow's events. And John Hooper blogs from Rome on a computer game that involves taking steps to feed the world: it contains no violence, but it's proved very popular.
Also on Guardian Unlimited today
We're covering the men's semifinals and the completion of the Mauresmo v Davenport match at Wimbledon. We'll be covering the vote of confidence in Gerhard Schroeder's government, and we've got world dispatches from Brian Whitaker, Jon Henley and the aforementioned John Hooper.
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